Gifford's Ice Cream in Maine. My favorite ice cream!! Oh, why does there have to be 2000 miles between me and that ice cream? :(

family-operated, Gifford’s ice cream stand in Skowhegan, Maine began in 1980. Today, they operate five ice cream stands throughout the great state of Maine that serve over one million cones each summer!

old red truck christmas wreath christmas tree....

Man driving a vintage 1941 Ford pickup with a Christmas wreath on the grill and a tree in the back during Winter in Southcentral, Alaska. Photographer: Jim Lavrakas. Collection: Alaska Stock Images. Rights Managed.

Maine Lighthouses. More than 60 lighthouses dot the Maine coast from the well known Nubble Light in York to West Quoddy Head, the easternmost lighthouse in the United States. http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=moz35&va=Maine+lighthouses

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Downtown Belfast, Maine Now, this is our town....fell in love with it in 1981 when it wasn't this pretty. Our cottage isssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

Is there anything better than beautiful old New England towns?

Favorite Places & Spaces

Harvest Moon!

Scituate Lighthouse, Massachusetts In the year 1810 the United States Congress voted $4000 to build a lighthouse at Scituate Harbor. The Light, of split granite blocks with a one and one half story house attached, was activated in 1811. LOVE TO SPEND A WEEK IN A LIGHTHOUSE💙

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E.B. White in his Maine cabin. E.B. White 1899 – 1985 Most well known for Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little, the noted American writer E.B. White spent much of his post-New York adult life in Brooklin, Maine where he died at the age of 86 in 1985. Other books by White include The Trumpet of the Swan and The Elements of Style. White was a long-time contributor to The New Yorker and won a Pulitzer Prize for his work.

painting box: E.B. White in his Maine cabin

E.B. White in his Maine cabin. E.B. White 1899 – 1985 "Most well known for Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little, the noted American writer E.B. White spent much of his post-New York adult life in Brooklin, Maine where he died at the age of 86 in 1985. Other books by White include The Trumpet of the Swan and The Elements of Style. White was a long-time contributor to The New Yorker and won a Pulitzer Prize for his work."

Outdoor, Islands, Image, Spring, Playgrounds

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Midcoast Maine

♥. Monhegan Island, Maine: Consider this the ultimate castaway spot: barely one square mile with a population of only 50 or so full-time residents. Thanks to its ruggedly dramatic coastline, the island’s been popular with artists since the 1880s and hosts a surprising number of galleries for its size. Should inspiration strike, the Lupine Gallery (207-594-81...

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Cottage garden

Andrew and Jamie Wyeth (photo by the brilliant Michael Ahearn)

Andrew and Jamie Wyeth. "It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment" (Andrew). "Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline" (Jamie).

Edna St. Vincent Millay, known for her poetry that focused on feminists themes and sexual freedom, began her literary career at the age of 20. Born in Rockland, Maine in 1892 she won the Pulitzer Prize for her book "Harp-Weaver.Her famous quote "My candle burns at both ends, It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends, It gives a lovely light!

Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet, playwright and feminist. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the award for poetry,and was also known for her activism and her many love affairs. The poet Richard Wilbur asserted, "She wrote some of the best sonnets of the century."

my favorite restaurant in maine: PRIMO!

Sunlight by Frank Weston Benson just beautiful

Frank Weston Benson - Sunlight (1909) Frank Benson was a key figure in the vital artistic arena of early 20th-century Boston, a member of a school of painters named for their city. He painted an idealized world that was never ugly or harsh, focusing instead on the lifestyle of genteel New Englanders. His outdoor images, especially those of vibrant young women, were painted in the full spectrum of colors, in bright sunshine. The model in Sunlight is the artist’s daughter Eleanor, who, like ...